Biography
Ned Thomas Beatty (July 6, 1937 – June 13, 2021) was an American actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and won a Drama Desk Award. These nominations stemmed from his performances in films and TV series like Network (1976), Friendly Fire (1979), Last Train Home (1990), Hear My Song (1991) and the adaptation movie "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (2004). He had great commercial success in memorable roles such as the executive Bobby Trippe in Deliverance (...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Big Ask
2014
as Old Man Carl
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anythin...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Baggage Claim
2013
as Mr. Donaldson
Although she has traveled all over the world, flight attendant Montana Moore has yet to find a man with whom she wants to settle down. However, with h...

Casting By
2012
as Self
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the mo...

Rampart
2011
as Hartshorn
The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own...

Rango
2011
as Mayor (voice)
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stand...

Toy Story 3
2010
as Lotso (voice)
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally le...

The Killer Inside Me
2010
as Chester Conway
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little...

In the Electric Mist
2009
as Twinky LeMoyne
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Bal...

Charlie Wilson's War
2007
as Doc Long
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afgh...

Shooter
2007
as Senator Charles F. Meachum
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back in...

The Walker
2007
as Jack Delorean
An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
as Otis
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are ...

Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
2006
as Self (archive footage)
The history of the comic book superhero, Superman, in his various media incarnations.

The Making of 'Network'
2006
as Self
An engrossing feature-length documentary about the making of Sidney Lumet's classic film "Network."

Sweet Land
2005
as Harmo
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.

The Wool Cap
2004
as Gigot's Father
This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwill...

Where the Red Fern Grows
2003
as Sheriff Abe McConnell
Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two...

Thunderpants
2002
as Gen. Ed Sheppard
An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becom...

Roughing It
2002
as Slade
A teenaged Mark Twain travels to the American West during the "Gold Rush" days in search of fortune and his destiny.

I Was a Rat
2001
as Mudduck
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joa...

Spring Forward
2000
as Murph
Trying to put himself back together after serving prison time for robbery, Paul takes a job as a parks employee in a small Connecticut town. His co-wo...

Homicide: The Movie
2000
as Stanley Bolander
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, c...

Life
1999
as Dexter Wilkins
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

Cookie's Fortune
1999
as Lester Boyle
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

He Got Game
1998
as Warden Wyatt
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.

The Curse of Inferno
1996
as Moles Huddenel
A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the ...

Crazy Horse
1996
as Dr. McGillicuddy
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.

The Affair
1995
as Col. Banning
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of h...

Just Cause
1995
as McNair
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific...

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995
as Sam Lawrence
After many years in prison, a changed robber comes home to see his sons again, one of them brain-damaged. Due to many misfortunate events and terrible...

Radioland Murders
1994
as General Whalen
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

Replikator
1994
as Insp. Victor Valiant
In a poisoned world where sunshine kills, a hit squad from the Zyklor Corporation interrupts the testing of a matter replikator capable of duplicating...

La Classe américaine
1993
as Frédéric (archive footage)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...

Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993
as Narrator (voice)
A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews with cast and crew members who worked with him.

Rudy
1993
as Daniel Ruettiger
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of p...

Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
as Uncle Benny
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
Lincoln
1992
as Dennis Hanks (voice)
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

T Bone N Weasel
1992
as Doc Tatum
An ex-con and a crazy man are an unlikely duo on the road looking for a better life. All they have is an old gun and a stolen car to aid them in findi...

Illusions
1992
as Landlord
Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strained marriage. Their privacy is interrupted by the a...

Earth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness l...

Prelude to a Kiss
1992
as Dr. Boyle
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happen...

Blind Vision
1992
as Sgt. Logan
A shy mail clerk becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder of a man involved with the beautiful neighbor he is obsessed with.

Trial: The Price of Passion
1992
as Scoot Shepard
Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband.

Hear My Song
1991
as Josef Locke
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the lo...

Angel Square
1991
A Canadian boy comes of age and investigates a mystery in 1945.

Going Under
1991
as Admiral Malice
An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.

Captain America
1990
as Sam Kolawetz
During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America". Racing to Germany to s...

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990
as Edward C. Acker
Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990
as Duke of Bridgewater
This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges.

Repossessed
1990
as Ernest Weller
It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii exorcised the Devil from little Nancy Aglet, who is now grown up with a husband and two children of h...

A Cry in the Wild
1990
as Pilot
13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of an unreported plane crash. Alone in the Yukon wilderness, Brian must learn to survive by his wits, find food...

Chattahoochee
1990
as Dr. Harwood
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.

Big Bad John
1990
as Charlie Mitchelle
Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who elopes to escape the girl's evil stepfather.

Spy
1989
as Thomas Ludlow
Richard is a spy. Ever since his wife Angela left him, cause she never liked what he did or became, his heart has not exactly been in it anymore. Afte...

Last Train Home
1989
as Cornelius van Horne
Tom Bradshaw searches for his family while riding the rails in this family drama set in the 1880s.

Ministry of Vengeance
1989
as Rev. Bloor
David Miller is a Vietnam vet who renounced violence and became a minister after he was forced to blow up a Viet Cong kid in self defense, but years l...

Tennessee Nights
1989
as Charlie Kiefer
When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing in Tennessee's backwoods, he ends up embroiled in a...

Time Trackers
1989
as Harry Orth
When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer, ...

Physical Evidence
1989
as James Nicks
A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puz...

Sex and Buttered Popcorn
1989
as Self - Host
Actor Ned Beatty hosts a look at the genre known as "exploitation" films. Interviews with some of the producers and directors of these films are shown...

Purple People Eater
1988
as Grandpa
A kid plays the old novelty song "Purple People Eater" and the creature actually appears. The two then proceed to help an elderly couple who are being...

Go Toward the Light
1988
as George
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.

After the Rain
1988
as Matthew Bonner
A father disowns his daughter, Annie, because of her choice to marry a neighboring woodsman. The marriage is strong and bears four children, but Annie...

Midnight Crossing
1988
as Ellis
A blind woman, her husband and another couple sail off to find cash hidden on an island near Cuba.

The Unholy
1988
as Lt. Stern
A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.

Switching Channels
1988
as Roy Ridnitz
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1988
as Self
Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family si...

Shadows in the Storm
1988
as Thelonious Pitt
A daydreaming businessman named Thelonius Pitt takes a vacation in the Redwood Forests of California. The morning after he arrives, he meets a beautif...

The Trouble with Spies
1987
as Harry Lewis
George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter s...

Rolling Vengeance
1987
as Tiny Doyle
A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family.

The Haunting of Barney Palmer
1987
as Cole Scholar
The Haunting of Barney Palmer is a fantasy film for children about a young boy who is haunted by his great uncle. Young Barney fears that he has inher...

The Fourth Protocol
1987
as Borisov
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A cr...

Kiwi Magic
1987
A fun filled, action packed, madcap adventure in New Zealand's countryside. Set among some of the archipelago's most striking scenery, this comedic ro...

The Big Easy
1986
as Jack Kellom
Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow mem...

Back to School
1986
as Dean Martin
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fe...

Hostage Flight
1985
as Art Hofstadter
A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.

Konrad
1985
as Mr. Thomas
Konrad is a factory-made child, perfect in every way. When he is mistakenly delivered to the eccentric Mrs. Bartelotti, the factory demands his return...

Restless Natives
1985
as Bender
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of to...

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985
as Rev. Mansfield French
At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners f...

Answers
1985
as Senator William Blaine (Segment "The Constituent")
Three of Ernest Thompson's short plays are presented, each involving a surprise visitor. In the first, "A Good Time," a vacationing California Highway...

Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1984
as [Self]
Don't Ask Me, Ask God is a TV Special starring Michael J. Fox.

Touched
1983
as Herbie
Two mental patients in an institution fall in love and plan to escape in the search of a normal life.

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
as Lynch Mob Leader
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in d...

Stroker Ace
1983
as Clyde Torkle
Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebellin...

Kentucky Woman
1983
as Luke Telford
A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.

The Toy
1982
as Sydney Morehouse
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eri...

Rumpelstiltskin
1982
as The King
Desperate to save her own life, a miller's daughter makes a bargain with a strange elf-like character. When she cannot cover her debt she is faced wit...

A Woman Called Golda
1982
as Sen. Durward
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
1982
as Benjamin Hammett
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this fa...

Pray TV
1982
as Rev. Freddy Stone
A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities s...

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1982
as Self
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film,...

All the Way Home
1981
as Ralph Follet
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.

Splendor in the Grass
1981
as Ace Stamper
Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day.

The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1981
as Dr. Walter Keys
Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after schoo...

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
as Dan Beame
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warm...

Superman II
1980
as Otis
Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop t...

Friendly Fire
1980
as Gene Mullen
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam...

Hopscotch
1980
as Myerson
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destro...

All God's Children
1980
as Mike Naponic
Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white...

The American Success Company
1980
as Mr. Elliott
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and frie...

1941
1979
as Ward Douglas
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Promises in the Dark
1979
as Bud Koenig
A young doctor, Alexandra Kendall, seeking change while recovering from a recent heartbreak, moves from Chicago, Illinois to Hartford, Connecticut. Sh...

Wise Blood
1979
as Hoover Shoates
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become...

Superman
1978
as Otis
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the ne...

A Question of Love
1978
as Dwayne Stabler
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.

The Great Bank Hoax
1978
as Julius Taggart
When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the ba...

Gray Lady Down
1978
as Mickey
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a pote...

Alambrista!
1977
as Anglo Coyote
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man, slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family b...

Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
as Edwards
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and kn...

Our Town
1977
as Dr. Gibbs
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.

Lucan
1977
as Larry MacElwaine
A 20-year old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised by predatory animals now strikes out on his own i...

Tail Gunner Joe
1977
as Sylvester
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later plann...

The Gardener's Son
1977
as Pinky
Based on true events which took place in the mill town of Graniteville, South Carolina in 1876, the story follows the rich Greggs, who run the mill, a...

Mikey and Nicky
1976
as Kinney
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Desperate and terrified, h...

Silver Streak
1976
as Bob Sweet
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no ...

Network
1976
as Arthur Jensen
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during ...

Gator
1976
as Sheriff J.C. Connors (uncredited)
After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp. Hi...

The Big Bus
1976
as Shorty Scotty
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disaste...

All the President's Men
1976
as Dardis
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...

The Deadly Tower
1975
as Allan Crum
The real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold. In August 1966, after killing his wife and mothe...

Nashville
1975
as Delbert Reese
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Te...

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975
as Country Bull
W.W. Bright is a robber with a heart of gold who travels the South knocking off banks and gas stations owned by a corrupt businessman. When he hijacks...

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
as Ollie Thompson
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

The Execution of Private Slovik
1974
as Father Stafford
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.

Dying Room Only
1973
as Tom King
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and t...

White Lightning
1973
as Sheriff J.C. Connors
An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

The Last American Hero
1973
as Hackel
A young hell raiser quits his moonshine business and tries to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. Loosely based on the true story of...

The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1973
as Det. Dan Corrigan
A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
as Deams
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who beco...

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972
as Tector Crites
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving t...

Footsteps
1972
as Frank Powell
A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the tea...

Deliverance
1972
as Bobby Trippe
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip...